Post by Dave Andrews on Aug 3, 2015 17:17:18 GMT
I put an enquiry about this programme on Roobarb's a few years ago but drew a blank.
I have a dim memory of a television play (around 30 mins, possibly) that was shown sometime in the 1960s (or just possibly the early '70s). I think it was shown late on a Saturday or Sunday evening. It came to mind when Richard Briers died, but I can't recognise it in his IMDB listing so it probably wasn't him in it.
It was about a couple living in the ruins after a nuclear war, having apparently survived in a fall-out shelter. There was some debate between them about their dog which they had earlier (ie before the beginning of the play) sent out from the shelter to test if it was safe to leave (it wasn't).
They are the only people in the play until at the very end they are shot by a couple of Civil Defence men, one of whom then says to the other that it was the kindest thing to do because they'd been exposed to radiation and would die anyway.
I have the vague impression that the dialogue was slightly comic (in a dark way), like a much less surreal version of 'The Bed Sitting Room' ... more slightly 'N F Simpson-ish'. The couple try to live as 'normal' a life as possible, so every morning he leaves and goes to the office, and I rather think that she goes there too, but pretends to be his secretary.
I also seem to remember that things hit crisis point when their last bottle of Calor-gas runs out.
Ring any bells with anyone ?
I have a dim memory of a television play (around 30 mins, possibly) that was shown sometime in the 1960s (or just possibly the early '70s). I think it was shown late on a Saturday or Sunday evening. It came to mind when Richard Briers died, but I can't recognise it in his IMDB listing so it probably wasn't him in it.
It was about a couple living in the ruins after a nuclear war, having apparently survived in a fall-out shelter. There was some debate between them about their dog which they had earlier (ie before the beginning of the play) sent out from the shelter to test if it was safe to leave (it wasn't).
They are the only people in the play until at the very end they are shot by a couple of Civil Defence men, one of whom then says to the other that it was the kindest thing to do because they'd been exposed to radiation and would die anyway.
I have the vague impression that the dialogue was slightly comic (in a dark way), like a much less surreal version of 'The Bed Sitting Room' ... more slightly 'N F Simpson-ish'. The couple try to live as 'normal' a life as possible, so every morning he leaves and goes to the office, and I rather think that she goes there too, but pretends to be his secretary.
I also seem to remember that things hit crisis point when their last bottle of Calor-gas runs out.
Ring any bells with anyone ?
